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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Heterocampinae » Rifargia » Rifargia subrotata - Hodges#7985 (Rifargia subrotata)

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Small Heterocampa - Rifargia subrotata -

La Petite Gemme Prairie, Polk County, Missouri, USA
June 6, 2015

Blacklighting at Missouri Prairie Foundation's Prairie BioBlitz 2015. Looks something like #7985 Heterocampa subrotata - Small Heterocampa. Whadya think?

Thanks!

(sorry the images aren't better)

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Small Heterocampa - Rifargia subrotata - male

Small Heterocampa - Rifargia subrotata - male

Small Heterocampa - Rifargia subrotata - male

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Contributed by Jon Rapp on 18 June, 2015 - 8:34pm
Last updated 12 July, 2021 - 7:54pm

Moved

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… Kyhl Austin, 17 December, 2015 - 6:41pm

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Thanks Kyhl!

for following up.

… Jon Rapp, 3 February, 2017 - 8:44pm

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… Kyhl Austin, 27 October, 2015 - 10:03pm

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… Marcia Morris, 5 July, 2015 - 12:36pm

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Hello John,

I am sure you know this is Genus Heterocampa, but I cannot tell if it is H. subrotata or H. biundata. The information page did not help me with size. Most Heterocampas in my area are fairly large. I DO have the H. subrotata in Campwood and it is comparatively small - never over 18 mm and sometimes smaller. I don't have H. biundata. Do you remember anything about size?

… A. Hendrickson, 21 June, 2015 - 7:32am

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Thanks Anne

for checking this out.

I wish I would've measured it. I do when I'm at home and they don't fly off before I getta chance, but in this case I was at this event taking hundreds of pix and not able to log measurements. However ... Just going on my recollection, my estimate would be around 20mm. It wasn't real large.

… Jon Rapp, 21 June, 2015 - 7:23pm

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If your size guestimate is correct, it would support the fact that I was leaning toward H. biundata, but that was just a guess.

… A. Hendrickson, 21 June, 2015 - 9:07pm

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